Medieval Arab Music and Musicians

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwight Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Arab Music

3. Between myth and history

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-50
Author(s):  
Philip V. Bohlman
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Ibn Khaldun ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Arab Music

‘Between myth and history’ begins with the 1932 Cairo Congress in Arab Music. The Arab contingent sought advice on progress, while the European delegates romanticized traditional Arab music. These contradictions, and Islam’s relationship with music, shaped the life-stories of three figures: 14th-century polymath Ibn Khaldūn; 20th-century Egyptian singer Umm Kulthūm; and ethnomusicologist Robert Lachmann, who found musical echoes of Muslim and Jewish pilgrims in Djerba, where he had been expecting to find local music fixed in time by isolation. The Mediterranean has inspired written and sung epics, which were translated into architecture and politics, taking them from myth into history.

Bartók and the Berlin school of ethnomusicology

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 383-405
Author(s):  
Vera Lampert
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
Great Affinity ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
Arab Music

There is a great affinity between Bartók’s scholarly works and that of the members of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv — established in 1900 and considered as the cradle of the discipline of ethnomusicology — both in their methods and philosophical outlook. Several publications of the Berlin scholars are extant in Bartók’s library. They exerted significant influence on Bartók’s folkloristic output, from the methods of transcription and analysis, to the publication of folk material. Bartók also had personal connections with two of the members of the school. He contacted the director of the institution, Erich von Hornbostel, in 1912, wanting to take part in the galvanoplastic preservation and exchange program, introduced in Berlin a few years earlier. Only ten of Bartók’s cylinders could be processed before the war broke out, putting an end to this effort. A few years later Hornbostel took on the publishing of Bartók’s monograph, Volksmusik der Rumänen von Maramureş in the series Sammelbände der vergleichenden Musikwissenschaft . Bartók also met and corresponded with another outstanding member of the Berlin School of Ethnomusicology, Robert Lachmann, the chairman of the committee on sound recordings, in the work of which Bartók also participated in 1932 at the Congress of Arab Music in Cairo.

Present Absentee: Arab Music in Israeli Culture

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 433-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Regev
Keyword(s):  
Arab Music

Arab Music (Music of the Near East)

1971 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Carl Cowl
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Arab Music

scholarly journals Al-Farabi’s philosophy of music “The Legality of Music”

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Gulzhihan Nurysheva ◽  
Nurfer Tercan
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Music Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cognitive Domain ◽  
Sense Perception ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Philosophy Of Music ◽  
Music Research ◽  
Inquiry Method ◽  
Arab Music

This article's approach is to acquire Al Farabi's point of view on the philosophy of music. Under the heading of Farabi's music philosophy, we determine that music is not just about art and entertainment. For this reason, he carried the theme to a higher level in terms of science and philosophy with his proof method studies. First of all, we aimed to discover the traces of Farabi's inquiry method from his works. A philosopher and musician, Abu Nasr Al Farabi, wrote on the perfect city, logic, astronomy, linguistics, politics, mathematics, geometry, medicine, optic, philosophy, and music, known as the 'second teacher', the first being Aristotle. This investigation contributes to practical and theoretical music proposing formation in the context of correlation. From this perspective, a musical system's consistency level relies on a sense-perception, a method of relevant indications within other comparable and correlated systems. This inquiry analyzes correlations' modalities, exploring their general and particular attributes and their operational bounds. This article evaluated the description of meaning from one cognitive domain to another mental part, such as from mathematics to music or astronomy or psychology correlated with music science. Approaching music science with dimension and paradigm determined the requirement for detailed music research in science and measurement criteria. His book 'Ihsa', which describes the nature and enumeration of science in philosophy and science classification, was recognized in the Middle Ages. However, 'Musiqa' tops the list of Arab theoretical studies and has had a remarkable impact on later Arab music theory.

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